Identity, Affinity and Christ
So many of the controversies surrounding the church at present center on concepts related to identity and affinity. Whether these issues are sexual, ethnic, biological or political in nature, one cannot…
Nick Batzig
The Ecclesiastical Pendulum Swing
I was baptized in the Reformed Episcopal church, spent time in Reformed Presbyterian Churches (mainly PCA and OPC) as a boy, was extremely rebellious and dechurched for over a decade,…
Redemptive History, Union with Christ and the Liturgical Calendar
The word “liturgy” continues to be a trendy–yet often indeterminate–buzzword among young(er-ish) Christians. This is especially so with regard to those who have recently made the shift away from broad…
Jesus and the Victim Card
All men share in the common experience of being image bearers of God, in having descended from the same first parents, of being fallen in the same federal representative and in…
To Be A Diaper Changer
I recently happened across a picture online, in which a group of young adults were linking arms at a well attended Christian Conference. The person who had posted the picture…
Striving to Escape the Fall
Marathons, mud runs, CrossFit, Yoga, diets, non-GMO and gluten-free foods, Christian financial programs, anti-vaccination and homeschooling have–each in their own way–taken over the driver’s seat of the lives of so…
Proverbs 8:23, the Eternal Generation of the Son and the History of Reformed Exegesis
The debate that raged last year concerning intertrinitarian relations fueled my desire to go back and revisit Richard Muller’s volume on The Triunity of God in his Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics (a volume…
Today’s Theologians: Dr. Richard Gaffin
As we continue our series of interviews with notable theologians, we sit down with Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. Dr. Gaffin is Emeritus Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Westminster…
Running the Race of Redemption
“If I had died in the line of duty, I don’t think that I would have come to Christ. If I had been shot, I would have worn that as…
More Mercy in Christ than Sin in Us
In his book The Bruised Reed, Richard Sibbes famously wrote, “We have this for a foundation truth, that there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.” Here is…